Four sentences get you a finished table instead of an essay

What do the four parts do?

Outcome tells the companion what done looks like, so it does not stop early or wander.

Constraints fence the sources and the time window. Format decides whether you get a paragraph to retype or a table to paste. The boundary names the actions it may not take alone: sending, deleting, paying, posting.

Miss one and you can predict the failure. No outcome, it summarizes. No constraints, it spends twenty minutes on sources you would never trust. No format, the right answer arrives in the wrong shape. No boundary, it either acts early or stops every ninety seconds to ask about trivia.

The template, filled in

Copy this and replace the brackets. Each line is one of the four parts:

• "Outcome: find every venue in [city] that can seat 80 people for a full-day event in [month], and give me the ten best."
• "Constraints: only venues with published event pages, no aggregator listings. Skip anything without pricing or a contact form. Spend no more than one page of search results per neighborhood."
• "Format: a table with venue, neighborhood, capacity, day rate as published, catering yes/no, source link. One row per venue, blank cell where the site does not say."
• "Boundary: do not submit any contact form or request a quote. When the table is done, stop and show me. I will pick which three to contact."

Why does the boundary line matter most?

It decides where the run ends.

In Strawberry, consequential actions pause on an approval card whatever you typed, and Ask Always in Settings → AI permissions widens that net. The line in the prompt still earns its place: it tells the companion to plan a run that stops at the checkpoint instead of arriving there by surprise.

"Stop and show me the table" also improves the output. The companion knows a person reads next, so it attaches sources and marks what it was unsure about. Finished runs are published as-is on real runs.

Fix the part that failed

Do not start over.

Wrong sources means the constraints need a name-the-sites line. Right answer in the wrong shape means the format line was vague, and "a table with these six columns" beats "a summary". Stopped early means the outcome had no number in it.

When a prompt survives three runs without edits, save it. Strawberry runs it as a routine on a schedule, which is what competitor monitoring and market research are built on. More jobs are collected across use cases.

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